🇧🇾 The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, discussed the future of the country's crypto-currency market at a meeting with the President of the National Bank, Roman Golovchenko.
He wondered how the country could use crypto-currencies.
"We have already raised this issue. It's important for me and for the country."
"How can we use it, especially now, to facilitate payments? There's been a lot of talk about it, but the Belarusian crypto-currency market is still underdeveloped. What are the next steps?"
The National Bank has prepared specific proposals for a breakthrough in the integration of crypto-currencies into national financial policy, which have been flagged and generally supported by the President, and the details of which are expected to be discussed at a special meeting.
"We are pleased to announce the launch of the Chainlink Reserve, a new upgrade focused on creating a strategic reserve in $LINK."
"We do not expect withdrawals from the reserve for several years and therefore expect it to grow over time. We believe that as industry demand for Chainlink's unique capabilities increases, adoption of Chainlink services will enable the Reserve to continue to grow."
🇺🇸 Donald Trump appoints crypto-friendly Stephen Miran to the Fed's board of governors until January 2026. An influential economist, Miran advocates simplifying crypto regulations.
📃 Latest Fed report explores revaluing US gold reserves to fund Bitcoin's strategic reserve.
That's what Senator Lummis proposed in her BITCOIN Act: revaluing US gold reserves (from an official $11 billion to a market value of about $750 billion) to fund the purchase of 1 million Bitcoins for a strategic reserve.
🇸🇻 El Salvador ha anunciado la próxima creación de "Bancos de Bitcoin", un primer mundial destinado a integrar Bitcoin aún más profundamente en su sistema financiero.$BTC
Bitcoin is struggling to reclaim the cost basis of short-term top buyers (~$116.9k). Remaining below this level raises the probability of extended consolidation or further correction toward the lower $110k region.
🇮🇩🇮🇹 After Brazil, whose parliament is to hold its first public hearing on the creation of a national Bitcoin reserve, it is now the turn of Indonesia and Italy to take an interest.
Indonesia is currently exploring the establishment of a national Bitcoin reserve.
In Italy, MP Marcello Coppo has stated that it is inevitable that the country will soon have to debate the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
💸 Tether adquiere una participación minoritaria en el intercambio español Bit2Me y recauda 30 millones de euros para acelerar la expansión de la plataforma en Europa y América Latina.
🇺🇸 Trump says he has no plans to fire Jerome Powell, according to Scott Bessent. He is, however, criticising the Fed for not cutting rates when employment figures were revised downwards.
🔎 Analysts at Glassnode report a slowdown in Bitcoin momentum across spot, futures, options and ETF markets, and seller exhaustion is starting to emerge.
"With liquidity dwindling and risk appetite moderating, signs of seller exhaustion are appearing, but the fragility of the market structure makes $BTC vulnerable to a further decline"